Quotes About Visionary

I wanted to do something nobody ever did. This goes hand in hand with my goal of changing swimming.

He reminded me a little of Walt Disney's version of a mad scientist.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time.

Even back in the command-and-control days of the production line, Henry Ford's decision to manufacture automobiles was driven by intuition rather than market research. "If we had asked the public what they wanted," he explained, "they would have said 'faster horses.

Leadership excellence requires a balanced mix of paradoxes. Leaders need to be visionary yet practical, teachers yet learners, and believers yet open-minded.

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

We have lived for too long in the dreary region of homo economicus, our lives shadowed by principles of self-interest, utilitarian 'necessities,' instrumental moralities. But we are permitted to hope; to revive those great and optimistic words of Breton: 'Perhaps the imagination is on the verge of recovering its rights.' We must welcome, as did the Surrealists, the re-entry into modern life of homo ludens, the imaginative man at play, the intuitive visionary.

No corner of PARC generated anything like the Kay group's free-wheeling mania. "It was an amazingly seductive environment," recalled Merry. "I was there late at night all the time. People were so full of ideas and excitement, and of course everybody knew more than anybody else about how the world was supposed to be.

The governing principle of PARC was that the place existed to give their employer that ten-year head start on the future. They even contrived a shorthand phrase to explain the concept. The Alto, they said, was a time machine. Thacker

Had in him those brave translunary thingsThat the first poets had.

Alfonso Cuaron

Both men were transformers in life; they thought not of themselves but of a higher cause. They assumed truly heroic transformations in bringing to their societies the idea "you have been thinking one way, you now have to think a different way."399

We live in a fast-paced, demanding, results-oriented world. New technologies place vast quantities of information at our fingertips in nanoseconds. We want problems solved instantly, results yesterday, answers immediately. We are exhorted to forget "ready, aim, fire" and to shoot now and shoot again. Leaders are expected to be decisive, bold, charismatic, and visionary—to know all the answers even before others have thought of the questions.

Chaos was Steve's strategy," said Walsh.

another important aspect of the marriage-equality movement that gives us some guidance moving forward is that it was driven not by the Beltway but by average Americans who wanted equality and who worked with visionary legal advocates.

Don't let them make you doubt yourself. All the greatest visionaries in history have been told they were insane at some point.

try very hard to be at the cutting edge of problems. Very often that puts me so far out in front that people are upset about it, but that's OK.

From the Greek apostolos meaning "one who is sent out." Apostles are visionary and pioneering, always pushing into new territory. They like to establish new churches, ministries, non-profits, Kingdom-minded businesses or initiatives.

usually I see myself 1st, be myself, then I wont need to compare myself with someone or do wat he does..that's my life visionary..

The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.

Boldness is something that you cannot take away from the prophets and geniuses.

The greatest individual will aim to be both the perfectionist, the dreamer, the visionary, and all of the greatest attributes known to man. Neither avoiding nor despising any of them.